Dreame X50 Ultra

What testers say about the Dreame X50 Ultra

For anyone with raised sills between rooms and a long-haired pet, the Dreame X50 Ultra crosses the sills and keeps the hair off its brush.

Small legs lift the Dreame X50 Ultra over door sills as high as 1.7 inches, more than twice the 0.8 inches at which most robots with a mop-washing, self-emptying dock give up. Vacuum Wars watched it cross a 1.4-inch board that no robot in its lab had crossed before, Just A Dad Approved saw it clear raised transitions reliably over three months, and TechRadar found the climb dependable if a little slow.

Pet hair is the other strength. Just A Dad Approved marked it 8 for hair, a point and a half over its usual 6.5, Vacuum Wars put it at 4.44 on a scale of 5 with a lab median of 3.735, and neither found long hair wrapped round the main brush. On plain vacuuming Just A Dad Approved went to 8.5 with 7 as its midpoint, while Vacuum Wars placed it near the middle of its field. The mop is ordinary in both labs: 7.5 from one, exactly its median, and 2.51 from the other, a touch under its 2.58.

Its height is the weak point. The body is 4.4 inches tall, 0.6 inches more than its peers, and although the lidar turret retracts, Just A Dad Approved judged it too tall to get under low furniture, so the dust under a low sofa or a bed is left where it lies.

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